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- LETTERS, Page 8Telephone Trickery
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- Legislation will never control scams offered to the public
- by telephone swindlers because the crooks will always be a step
- ahead (BUSINESS, April 3). Consumers should wise up and stop
- being so gullible. Granted, some tricky deals are more creative
- and less obvious than others, but it is difficult to be
- sympathetic toward those who decide to purchase shares in a
- process to convert sand to gold or who give credit-card numbers
- freely over the phone. As the saying goes, "Wake up and smell
- the coffee!"
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- Amy Chitwood Fremont, Calif.
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- As long as people try to get something for nothing, there
- will always be frauds. Why should taxpayer money be spent on
- law enforcement to protect those who can't say no?
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- Vivian Koby Vincennes, Ind.
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